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New comment by Satam in "Ryanair fined €256M over ‘abusive strategy’ to limit ticket sales by OTAs"

Satam — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 15:13:49 +0000

I disliked them a bit, but then they stopped flying to a certain destination. I quickly realized that the other airlines were 3x more expensive. I realized I actually cared about price much more than any possible extra leg room or other perks, and that their super cheap flights are quality by itself.

Ask HN: What are you actually using LLMs for in production?

Satam — Sat, 28 Jun 2025 14:46:20 +0000

Beyond the obvious chatbots and coding copilots, curious what people are actually shipping with LLMs. Internal tools? Customer-facing features? Any economically useful agents out there in the wild?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44405067

Points: 49

# Comments: 67

New comment by Satam in "Nvidia’s $589B DeepSeek rout"

Satam — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 09:53:35 +0000

Because LLMs are based on the abstract ideas of neural nets from brains. Say what you wish, but some problems were completely unsolvable before we adopted this paradigm. On some level, we must've gotten some ideas close to the right ballpark.

New comment by Satam in "Ross Ulbricht granted a full pardon"

Satam — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 04:33:50 +0000

I had the same confusion initially, interestingly chat GPT gets it:

So while wolfgang42 wasn't there when Ulbricht was actually arrested, their realization created a vivid mental image of the event unfolding in that space, which made the story feel more immersive.

In short: they were reading about an old event, but it happened to occur in the same spot they were sitting at that moment. Hope that clears it up!

New comment by Satam in "Trump wins presidency for second time"

Satam — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 13:23:06 +0000

Is there reason to believe that the extra voters would've helped Kamala instead of Donald?

New comment by Satam in "Tesla has been testing a robotaxi service in the Bay Area for most of the year"

Satam — Mon, 28 Oct 2024 07:07:14 +0000

What successful projects have you birthed and how do they compare?

New comment by Satam in "Tesla has been testing a robotaxi service in the Bay Area for most of the year"

Satam — Thu, 24 Oct 2024 19:58:33 +0000

So you're saying it's better to be like most people: to promise nothing and then deliver exactly that, perfectly on time.

New comment by Satam in "Tesla has been testing a robotaxi service in the Bay Area for most of the year"

Satam — Thu, 24 Oct 2024 00:37:05 +0000

How do you reconcile his "bullshit" with the fact his spaceships are saving astronauts from space?

New comment by Satam in "Terence Tao on O1"

Satam — Sat, 14 Sep 2024 20:05:41 +0000

Wow! I love this take. Somehow with all this evidence of COT helping out LLMs, I never thought about using it more myself. Sure, we kind of do it already but definitely not to the degree of LLMs, at least not usually. Maybe that's why writing is so often admired as a way to do great thinking - it enables longer chains of thoughts with less effort.

New comment by Satam in "OpenAI o1 Results on ARC-AGI-Pub"

Satam — Sat, 14 Sep 2024 09:15:22 +0000

I think it's because OpenAI's leadership lacks good taste and talent. Realistically, they haven't shifted the needle with anything really interesting in 2 years now. They're using the inertia well but that's about it. Their model is not the best, the UI is not the best, and their pace of improvement is not great either.

New comment by Satam in "Ask HN: Is webdev getting complicated without results to show for it?"

Satam — Thu, 12 Sep 2024 23:55:14 +0000

Except last I heard it's getting merged with the hated React router and it's not really clear what that implies, no? Haven't used either, just reading.

New comment by Satam in "Ask HN: Is webdev getting complicated without results to show for it?"

Satam — Thu, 12 Sep 2024 23:49:19 +0000

OP here. Thank you! I think your singling out of truly complex apps like Notion makes the situation more intuitive to me.

Ask HN: Is webdev getting complicated without results to show for it?

Satam — Thu, 12 Sep 2024 17:29:44 +0000

SPAs, SSR, typescript, bundlers, transpilers, jamstack, headless CMS, serverless adapters...

But where is all that complexity going? Most websites and web apps I encounter are no better than they were 10 years ago. Sure, they look better, but that's largely orthogonal. There's maybe a bit more interactivity but it's still basic CRUD most of the time. They break the same, sometimes even more.

It seems like chasing marginal improvements in dev and user experience leads to complexity which begets even more complexity.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41523281

Points: 40

# Comments: 36

New comment by Satam in "Ilya Sutskever's SSI Inc raises $1B"

Satam — Wed, 04 Sep 2024 19:26:33 +0000

To clarify this, I think it's reasonable that token prediction as a training objective could lead to AGI given the underlying model has the correct architecture. The question really is if the underlying architecture is good enough to capitalize on the training objective so as to result in superhuman intelligence.

For example, you'll have little luck achieving AGI with decision trees no matter what's their training objective.

New comment by Satam in "Vue 3.5 released"

Satam — Wed, 04 Sep 2024 06:02:41 +0000

Yeah, I don't get it. I used Vue because it was straightforward. The options interface was Vue. Now, if it keeps getting more complicated and also has two ways to go about things, and the docs are split into two as well... Why not just go for React that's complicated and more popular?

New comment by Satam in "Superhuman built an engine to find product market fit (2018)"

Satam — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 12:03:08 +0000

My experience with Superhuman has been terrible. Back in the day, I tried to sign up. Couldn't. Then they started allowing sign-ups, but there was a mandatory onboarding/sales call to get started...

Finally, some time ago managed to sign up in hopes it could help to manage multiple inboxes with a unified inbox for all of my accounts. Nope doesn't have that. Canceled my subscription immediately yet I kept receiving their spam for a while.

Overall, a very scammy vibe.

New comment by Satam in "I wag, therefore I am: the philosophy of dogs"

Satam — Tue, 20 Aug 2024 19:14:15 +0000

I think you're right that for a dog to live its best life it needs the ability to spend a lot of time outdoors with relative freedom. Our labrador had the chance to live like that in an excessively very large garden for his last 4 years. I'm glad he got that, I think it made his life much better. Looking back, when he stayed with us in an apartment he must've been depressed.

New comment by Satam in "Ask HN: Should we bring software dev in-house?"

Satam — Thu, 08 Aug 2024 19:45:28 +0000

Maybe the limitations of the software arise from the fact that it's being sold at a price that's relatively too low? It sounds like it's very niche software with only a handful of users like you at most. With a small number of paying users, even if each one is paying thousands per month, the tool's team might be too underfunded for it to do much more than maintenance.

To do it in-house, you'll probably hire 2-3 engineers. You'll aim to have smart people who can self-manage, design, and who can intuit the business requirements. Your part-time duty will become to be the product's "CEO" of that whole thing.

So you'll end up paying at least €16000/mo (3x€6000) in salaries alone. Data access, storage and infrastructure will probably cost a bit too. How much are you spending now?

New comment by Satam in "Ray Dalio's "The Changing World Order" [pdf]"

Satam — Sat, 03 Aug 2024 08:20:03 +0000

Nothing survives over a long enough time scale. So the US will fall from grace and fail too. The question really is, is that going to happen within our lifetimes and what effects will we see in the meantime?

New comment by Satam in "Ray Dalio's "The Changing World Order" [pdf]"

Satam — Sat, 03 Aug 2024 08:16:02 +0000

Great point. I think that might be in line with the idea if we take it to its full conclusion. Any way it goes, expect change. The meta mistake is assuming the patterns we've seen in the last 10/50/100/1000 years/etc. will continue.

If one looks at the last 10 years, they assume the market only goes up. If one looks only at the last 50 years, one assumes the US will continue to dominate.

I guess then, what is the mistake if we look only at the last 1000 or 10000 years? Maybe assuming the continued dominance of humans?